ARMISTICE DAY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3335, 13 November 1919, Page 5

ARMISTICE DAY.

CELEBRATIONS AT ‘HOME.

Received 9.35 a..m.4 _ * LONDON, Nov. 11.

Parties of Australian and New Zealand Veterans will take part in =1 tribute of remembrance to-day, following solemn ceremonials in morning. The evening will be devoted to .re—joicings, and every theatre in the West End has already sold out, and seats in restaurants have been booked. There will be a Great Victory Ball in Albert Hall and many regirnental gatherings, also re-unions of W.A.A.C.S., Wren, land girls, and other war workers.

SOLEMN AND IMPRESSIVE CELEBRA'I‘ION.

Received 11 a.m

LONDON, Nov. 1‘

Flags on public buildings were half; ma.sted, and the “Last Post” sounded on the steps of the Royal Exchange. There’ was great assemblage in front of the Mansion House, who sang the Doxology. The staff of New Zealand House assembled in the main hall, and Captain Donne read the Kings message. Two minutes silence followed. Sir T. McKenzie, as member of the War Gravs Commission attended. There was no ceremony beyond the cessation of work observed at Australia House. Immediately the maroons fired the road of traffic subsided into a great silence. Pedestrians remained standing bareheaded through the sol emn, impressive interval. There was an enormous crowd at Whitehall round the cenotaph, which was the mecca of the day’s ceremonial. The base of the monumnt was surrounded by beautiful wreaths. President Poincare a few moments before eleven, placed a wreath at the foot of the cenotaph in the presence of the .mcmbers of the War Graves Committee, and a guard of honour with arms reversed. Mr Lloyd George, bareheaded, walked across fronl Downing Street, also to deposit a wreath" inscribed “To the Glorious Dead.” Business and Courts of Justice Were suspended, and lights were lowered. The Chief Justice. rising from the Bench, said “Let us stand in memory of the glorious dead.”

. IlVll’RFa"s‘£\‘lVE AT CENOTAPH. Received 11.55 am. Lo'NDoN, Nov. 11.. Whitehall was impassable all day. There was an amazing crowd at the Cenotaph, nrany bearing wreaths being compelled ‘to pass the flowers over the heads of those intervening. Lord Curzon, Mr Churchill, and many generals, admirals, and other notables, stoodbbareheatled beside the cenotaph during the interval -of silence. Fifty thousand participated. in the Salvation A.rmy’s simple. service before the'Mansion House, Preceding the silence, a vnzxst crowd on St. Paul ’s steps sang, “Oh God, our Help,” and the. National Anthem. Silence was impressively observed at Australian headquarters. Four bug[L’e"s ion (the steps of the main entrance sounded: “Attention.’\’ Everybody halted and stood at attention until the buglers’ “All clear” broke the silence.

PRESIDENT \V]?LSON’S ‘MESSAGE TO AMERICA. WA.sHn<*GTON, Nov_ 10. Presidéfiit Wilson. on Armistice Day, issued the. following message: “The Allies, for'““l'fi-ore ‘than four years, upheld the barriers of civilisation against thcfaggression of armed forces. We were also a decisive factor in the victory, and from the victory arose an economic concert of political freedom. The world to-day is fined With pride for us, because opportunity ‘nubeen given to Americans to show their sympathy with peace and justice in the council -of the nations. V

AUSTRALIA’S ADIVIINIS’I‘RATION Ol‘ NEW GUINEA. GERMAN ACCUSATION. . Received noon. BERLIN, Nov. 11. Ca’ptain; 'Ddtzllcu', Efldturing before the Berlin Geographical Society, said natives of New Guinea. were against domination by Australia, whose military levies developed into sl-ave hunts. Even English planters addressed letters to Deitzner advocafing that the country should not be handed to Australia. The natives collected money for a German. war memoral.